Chapter III

used before a singular noun to mean one of a group, when it is not a particular one

From this reading I have given you every proof that I can--saving the impossible--the bringing of my apparatus from Strassburg to Paris, which, of course, you know is an impossibility, since it would have to cross the frontier, which was once a French high road.

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From this reading Can you not see that I am honest, that I love my country, from which I have been torn away--I who come from a family that has lived in Alsace since it was first French territory--I who am a Frenchman through five generations--I who have sold my son to the Prussians--I who have masqueraded for years in the Prussian University of Strassburg, once the Queen of the Rhine Province--I who have discovered a secret which has lain buried since the days of the great Faraday--I who have discovered, or I should say re-discovered, after him the true theory, and, what is more, the actual working of the magnetic tides which flow north and south through the two hemispheres to the pole--I who can give you, Monsieur le Ministre, and through you France, the control of those tides, so that you may make them ebb and flow as the tides of the sea do--prosperity with the flow, adversity with the ebb, that is what it comes to--ah, it is incredible!

Difficulties; misfortune and hardship faced with courage.

From this reading Can you not see that I am honest, that I love my country, from which I have been torn away--I who come from a family that has lived in Alsace since it was first French territory--I who am a Frenchman through five generations--I who have sold my son to the Prussians--I who have masqueraded for years in the Prussian University of Strassburg, once the Queen of the Rhine Province--I who have discovered a secret which has lain buried since the days of the great Faraday--I who have discovered, or I should say re-discovered, after him the true theory, and, what is more, the actual working of the magnetic tides which flow north and south through the two hemispheres to the pole--I who can give you, Monsieur le Ministre, and through you France, the control of those tides, so that you may make them ebb and flow as the tides of the sea do--prosperity with the flow, adversity with the ebb, that is what it comes to--ah, it is incredible!

later than; following

From this reading Can you not see that I am honest, that I love my country, from which I have been torn away--I who come from a family that has lived in Alsace since it was first French territory--I who am a Frenchman through five generations--I who have sold my son to the Prussians--I who have masqueraded for years in the Prussian University of Strassburg, once the Queen of the Rhine Province--I who have discovered a secret which has lain buried since the days of the great Faraday--I who have discovered, or I should say re-discovered, after him the true theory, and, what is more, the actual working of the magnetic tides which flow north and south through the two hemispheres to the pole--I who can give you, Monsieur le Ministre, and through you France, the control of those tides, so that you may make them ebb and flow as the tides of the sea do--prosperity with the flow, adversity with the ebb, that is what it comes to--ah, it is incredible!

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From this reading Can you not see that I am honest, that I love my country, from which I have been torn away--I who come from a family that has lived in Alsace since it was first French territory--I who am a Frenchman through five generations--I who have sold my son to the Prussians--I who have masqueraded for years in the Prussian University of Strassburg, once the Queen of the Rhine Province--I who have discovered a secret which has lain buried since the days of the great Faraday--I who have discovered, or I should say re-discovered, after him the true theory, and, what is more, the actual working of the magnetic tides which flow north and south through the two hemispheres to the pole--I who can give you, Monsieur le Ministre, and through you France, the control of those tides, so that you may make them ebb and flow as the tides of the sea do--prosperity with the flow, adversity with the ebb, that is what it comes to--ah, it is incredible!

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From this reading Can you not see that I am honest, that I love my country, from which I have been torn away--I who come from a family that has lived in Alsace since it was first French territory--I who am a Frenchman through five generations--I who have sold my son to the Prussians--I who have masqueraded for years in the Prussian University of Strassburg, once the Queen of the Rhine Province--I who have discovered a secret which has lain buried since the days of the great Faraday--I who have discovered, or I should say re-discovered, after him the true theory, and, what is more, the actual working of the magnetic tides which flow north and south through the two hemispheres to the pole--I who can give you, Monsieur le Ministre, and through you France, the control of those tides, so that you may make them ebb and flow as the tides of the sea do--prosperity with the flow, adversity with the ebb, that is what it comes to--ah, it is incredible!

the form of “be” used with “I”

From this reading "And so, Monsieur le Ministre, I am to take that as your final word?

the form of “a” used before a word that begins with a vowel sound

From this reading I have given you every proof that I can--saving the impossible--the bringing of my apparatus from Strassburg to Paris, which, of course, you know is an impossibility, since it would have to cross the frontier, which was once a French high road.

used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together

From this reading "And so, Monsieur le Ministre, I am to take that as your final word?

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From this reading I have given you every proof that I can--saving the impossible--the bringing of my apparatus from Strassburg to Paris, which, of course, you know is an impossibility, since it would have to cross the frontier, which was once a French high road.

at the same time that; because; in the way that

From this reading "And so, Monsieur le Ministre, I am to take that as your final word?

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From this reading Can you not see that I am honest, that I love my country, from which I have been torn away--I who come from a family that has lived in Alsace since it was first French territory--I who am a Frenchman through five generations--I who have sold my son to the Prussians--I who have masqueraded for years in the Prussian University of Strassburg, once the Queen of the Rhine Province--I who have discovered a secret which has lain buried since the days of the great Faraday--I who have discovered, or I should say re-discovered, after him the true theory, and, what is more, the actual working of the magnetic tides which flow north and south through the two hemispheres to the pole--I who can give you, Monsieur le Ministre, and through you France, the control of those tides, so that you may make them ebb and flow as the tides of the sea do--prosperity with the flow, adversity with the ebb, that is what it comes to--ah, it is incredible!

the past participle of “be”

From this reading Can you not see that I am honest, that I love my country, from which I have been torn away--I who come from a family that has lived in Alsace since it was first French territory--I who am a Frenchman through five generations--I who have sold my son to the Prussians--I who have masqueraded for years in the Prussian University of Strassburg, once the Queen of the Rhine Province--I who have discovered a secret which has lain buried since the days of the great Faraday--I who have discovered, or I should say re-discovered, after him the true theory, and, what is more, the actual working of the magnetic tides which flow north and south through the two hemispheres to the pole--I who can give you, Monsieur le Ministre, and through you France, the control of those tides, so that you may make them ebb and flow as the tides of the sea do--prosperity with the flow, adversity with the ebb, that is what it comes to--ah, it is incredible!

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From this reading I have given you every proof that I can--saving the impossible--the bringing of my apparatus from Strassburg to Paris, which, of course, you know is an impossibility, since it would have to cross the frontier, which was once a French high road.

Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.

From this reading Can you not see that I am honest, that I love my country, from which I have been torn away--I who come from a family that has lived in Alsace since it was first French territory--I who am a Frenchman through five generations--I who have sold my son to the Prussians--I who have masqueraded for years in the Prussian University of Strassburg, once the Queen of the Rhine Province--I who have discovered a secret which has lain buried since the days of the great Faraday--I who have discovered, or I should say re-discovered, after him the true theory, and, what is more, the actual working of the magnetic tides which flow north and south through the two hemispheres to the pole--I who can give you, Monsieur le Ministre, and through you France, the control of those tides, so that you may make them ebb and flow as the tides of the sea do--prosperity with the flow, adversity with the ebb, that is what it comes to--ah, it is incredible!

used to introduce something that contrasts with what came before

From this reading "Once more, not as a scientist, not as an inventor, but only as a loyal son of France, let me implore you, Monsieur le Ministre, not to regard what I have told you as the dream of an enthusiast who has only dreamt and not done."

to be able to, or to be allowed to

From this reading I have given you every proof that I can--saving the impossible--the bringing of my apparatus from Strassburg to Paris, which, of course, you know is an impossibility, since it would have to cross the frontier, which was once a French high road.

an important story-specific word used in this passage

From this reading Can you not see that I am honest, that I love my country, from which I have been torn away--I who come from a family that has lived in Alsace since it was first French territory--I who am a Frenchman through five generations--I who have sold my son to the Prussians--I who have masqueraded for years in the Prussian University of Strassburg, once the Queen of the Rhine Province--I who have discovered a secret which has lain buried since the days of the great Faraday--I who have discovered, or I should say re-discovered, after him the true theory, and, what is more, the actual working of the magnetic tides which flow north and south through the two hemispheres to the pole--I who can give you, Monsieur le Ministre, and through you France, the control of those tides, so that you may make them ebb and flow as the tides of the sea do--prosperity with the flow, adversity with the ebb, that is what it comes to--ah, it is incredible!

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From this reading Can you not see that I am honest, that I love my country, from which I have been torn away--I who come from a family that has lived in Alsace since it was first French territory--I who am a Frenchman through five generations--I who have sold my son to the Prussians--I who have masqueraded for years in the Prussian University of Strassburg, once the Queen of the Rhine Province--I who have discovered a secret which has lain buried since the days of the great Faraday--I who have discovered, or I should say re-discovered, after him the true theory, and, what is more, the actual working of the magnetic tides which flow north and south through the two hemispheres to the pole--I who can give you, Monsieur le Ministre, and through you France, the control of those tides, so that you may make them ebb and flow as the tides of the sea do--prosperity with the flow, adversity with the ebb, that is what it comes to--ah, it is incredible!

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From this reading Can you not see that I am honest, that I love my country, from which I have been torn away--I who come from a family that has lived in Alsace since it was first French territory--I who am a Frenchman through five generations--I who have sold my son to the Prussians--I who have masqueraded for years in the Prussian University of Strassburg, once the Queen of the Rhine Province--I who have discovered a secret which has lain buried since the days of the great Faraday--I who have discovered, or I should say re-discovered, after him the true theory, and, what is more, the actual working of the magnetic tides which flow north and south through the two hemispheres to the pole--I who can give you, Monsieur le Ministre, and through you France, the control of those tides, so that you may make them ebb and flow as the tides of the sea do--prosperity with the flow, adversity with the ebb, that is what it comes to--ah, it is incredible!

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From this reading Can you not see that I am honest, that I love my country, from which I have been torn away--I who come from a family that has lived in Alsace since it was first French territory--I who am a Frenchman through five generations--I who have sold my son to the Prussians--I who have masqueraded for years in the Prussian University of Strassburg, once the Queen of the Rhine Province--I who have discovered a secret which has lain buried since the days of the great Faraday--I who have discovered, or I should say re-discovered, after him the true theory, and, what is more, the actual working of the magnetic tides which flow north and south through the two hemispheres to the pole--I who can give you, Monsieur le Ministre, and through you France, the control of those tides, so that you may make them ebb and flow as the tides of the sea do--prosperity with the flow, adversity with the ebb, that is what it comes to--ah, it is incredible!

an important story-specific word used in this passage

From this reading I have given you every proof that I can--saving the impossible--the bringing of my apparatus from Strassburg to Paris, which, of course, you know is an impossibility, since it would have to cross the frontier, which was once a French high road.

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From this reading I have given you every proof that I can--saving the impossible--the bringing of my apparatus from Strassburg to Paris, which, of course, you know is an impossibility, since it would have to cross the frontier, which was once a French high road.

Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.

From this reading Can you not see that I am honest, that I love my country, from which I have been torn away--I who come from a family that has lived in Alsace since it was first French territory--I who am a Frenchman through five generations--I who have sold my son to the Prussians--I who have masqueraded for years in the Prussian University of Strassburg, once the Queen of the Rhine Province--I who have discovered a secret which has lain buried since the days of the great Faraday--I who have discovered, or I should say re-discovered, after him the true theory, and, what is more, the actual working of the magnetic tides which flow north and south through the two hemispheres to the pole--I who can give you, Monsieur le Ministre, and through you France, the control of those tides, so that you may make them ebb and flow as the tides of the sea do--prosperity with the flow, adversity with the ebb, that is what it comes to--ah, it is incredible!

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From this reading Can you not see that I am honest, that I love my country, from which I have been torn away--I who come from a family that has lived in Alsace since it was first French territory--I who am a Frenchman through five generations--I who have sold my son to the Prussians--I who have masqueraded for years in the Prussian University of Strassburg, once the Queen of the Rhine Province--I who have discovered a secret which has lain buried since the days of the great Faraday--I who have discovered, or I should say re-discovered, after him the true theory, and, what is more, the actual working of the magnetic tides which flow north and south through the two hemispheres to the pole--I who can give you, Monsieur le Ministre, and through you France, the control of those tides, so that you may make them ebb and flow as the tides of the sea do--prosperity with the flow, adversity with the ebb, that is what it comes to--ah, it is incredible!

used to form questions and negatives, and to give emphasis

From this reading Can you not see that I am honest, that I love my country, from which I have been torn away--I who come from a family that has lived in Alsace since it was first French territory--I who am a Frenchman through five generations--I who have sold my son to the Prussians--I who have masqueraded for years in the Prussian University of Strassburg, once the Queen of the Rhine Province--I who have discovered a secret which has lain buried since the days of the great Faraday--I who have discovered, or I should say re-discovered, after him the true theory, and, what is more, the actual working of the magnetic tides which flow north and south through the two hemispheres to the pole--I who can give you, Monsieur le Ministre, and through you France, the control of those tides, so that you may make them ebb and flow as the tides of the sea do--prosperity with the flow, adversity with the ebb, that is what it comes to--ah, it is incredible!

an important story-specific word used in this passage

From this reading "Once more, not as a scientist, not as an inventor, but only as a loyal son of France, let me implore you, Monsieur le Ministre, not to regard what I have told you as the dream of an enthusiast who has only dreamt and not done."

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From this reading I have shown you the facts, the figures, the drawings--everything.

A series of thoughts, images, or emotions during sleep.

From this reading "Once more, not as a scientist, not as an inventor, but only as a loyal son of France, let me implore you, Monsieur le Ministre, not to regard what I have told you as the dream of an enthusiast who has only dreamt and not done."

Experienced dreams during sleep.

From this reading "Once more, not as a scientist, not as an inventor, but only as a loyal son of France, let me implore you, Monsieur le Ministre, not to regard what I have told you as the dream of an enthusiast who has only dreamt and not done."

the movement of the tide away from the land

From this reading Can you not see that I am honest, that I love my country, from which I have been torn away--I who come from a family that has lived in Alsace since it was first French territory--I who am a Frenchman through five generations--I who have sold my son to the Prussians--I who have masqueraded for years in the Prussian University of Strassburg, once the Queen of the Rhine Province--I who have discovered a secret which has lain buried since the days of the great Faraday--I who have discovered, or I should say re-discovered, after him the true theory, and, what is more, the actual working of the magnetic tides which flow north and south through the two hemispheres to the pole--I who can give you, Monsieur le Ministre, and through you France, the control of those tides, so that you may make them ebb and flow as the tides of the sea do--prosperity with the flow, adversity with the ebb, that is what it comes to--ah, it is incredible!

Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.

From this reading "Once more, not as a scientist, not as an inventor, but only as a loyal son of France, let me implore you, Monsieur le Ministre, not to regard what I have told you as the dream of an enthusiast who has only dreamt and not done."

all the members of a group, with none left out

From this reading I have given you every proof that I can--saving the impossible--the bringing of my apparatus from Strassburg to Paris, which, of course, you know is an impossibility, since it would have to cross the frontier, which was once a French high road.

all things; all of a situation

From this reading I have shown you the facts, the figures, the drawings--everything.

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From this reading I have shown you the facts, the figures, the drawings--everything.

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From this reading Can you not see that I am honest, that I love my country, from which I have been torn away--I who come from a family that has lived in Alsace since it was first French territory--I who am a Frenchman through five generations--I who have sold my son to the Prussians--I who have masqueraded for years in the Prussian University of Strassburg, once the Queen of the Rhine Province--I who have discovered a secret which has lain buried since the days of the great Faraday--I who have discovered, or I should say re-discovered, after him the true theory, and, what is more, the actual working of the magnetic tides which flow north and south through the two hemispheres to the pole--I who can give you, Monsieur le Ministre, and through you France, the control of those tides, so that you may make them ebb and flow as the tides of the sea do--prosperity with the flow, adversity with the ebb, that is what it comes to--ah, it is incredible!

Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.

From this reading Can you not see that I am honest, that I love my country, from which I have been torn away--I who come from a family that has lived in Alsace since it was first French territory--I who am a Frenchman through five generations--I who have sold my son to the Prussians--I who have masqueraded for years in the Prussian University of Strassburg, once the Queen of the Rhine Province--I who have discovered a secret which has lain buried since the days of the great Faraday--I who have discovered, or I should say re-discovered, after him the true theory, and, what is more, the actual working of the magnetic tides which flow north and south through the two hemispheres to the pole--I who can give you, Monsieur le Ministre, and through you France, the control of those tides, so that you may make them ebb and flow as the tides of the sea do--prosperity with the flow, adversity with the ebb, that is what it comes to--ah, it is incredible!

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From this reading I have shown you the facts, the figures, the drawings--everything.

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From this reading "And so, Monsieur le Ministre, I am to take that as your final word?

an important story-specific word used in this passage

From this reading Can you not see that I am honest, that I love my country, from which I have been torn away--I who come from a family that has lived in Alsace since it was first French territory--I who am a Frenchman through five generations--I who have sold my son to the Prussians--I who have masqueraded for years in the Prussian University of Strassburg, once the Queen of the Rhine Province--I who have discovered a secret which has lain buried since the days of the great Faraday--I who have discovered, or I should say re-discovered, after him the true theory, and, what is more, the actual working of the magnetic tides which flow north and south through the two hemispheres to the pole--I who can give you, Monsieur le Ministre, and through you France, the control of those tides, so that you may make them ebb and flow as the tides of the sea do--prosperity with the flow, adversity with the ebb, that is what it comes to--ah, it is incredible!

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From this reading Can you not see that I am honest, that I love my country, from which I have been torn away--I who come from a family that has lived in Alsace since it was first French territory--I who am a Frenchman through five generations--I who have sold my son to the Prussians--I who have masqueraded for years in the Prussian University of Strassburg, once the Queen of the Rhine Province--I who have discovered a secret which has lain buried since the days of the great Faraday--I who have discovered, or I should say re-discovered, after him the true theory, and, what is more, the actual working of the magnetic tides which flow north and south through the two hemispheres to the pole--I who can give you, Monsieur le Ministre, and through you France, the control of those tides, so that you may make them ebb and flow as the tides of the sea do--prosperity with the flow, adversity with the ebb, that is what it comes to--ah, it is incredible!

Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.

From this reading Can you not see that I am honest, that I love my country, from which I have been torn away--I who come from a family that has lived in Alsace since it was first French territory--I who am a Frenchman through five generations--I who have sold my son to the Prussians--I who have masqueraded for years in the Prussian University of Strassburg, once the Queen of the Rhine Province--I who have discovered a secret which has lain buried since the days of the great Faraday--I who have discovered, or I should say re-discovered, after him the true theory, and, what is more, the actual working of the magnetic tides which flow north and south through the two hemispheres to the pole--I who can give you, Monsieur le Ministre, and through you France, the control of those tides, so that you may make them ebb and flow as the tides of the sea do--prosperity with the flow, adversity with the ebb, that is what it comes to--ah, it is incredible!

intended to be given to, or used by, somebody

From this reading Can you not see that I am honest, that I love my country, from which I have been torn away--I who come from a family that has lived in Alsace since it was first French territory--I who am a Frenchman through five generations--I who have sold my son to the Prussians--I who have masqueraded for years in the Prussian University of Strassburg, once the Queen of the Rhine Province--I who have discovered a secret which has lain buried since the days of the great Faraday--I who have discovered, or I should say re-discovered, after him the true theory, and, what is more, the actual working of the magnetic tides which flow north and south through the two hemispheres to the pole--I who can give you, Monsieur le Ministre, and through you France, the control of those tides, so that you may make them ebb and flow as the tides of the sea do--prosperity with the flow, adversity with the ebb, that is what it comes to--ah, it is incredible!

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From this reading Can you not see that I am honest, that I love my country, from which I have been torn away--I who come from a family that has lived in Alsace since it was first French territory--I who am a Frenchman through five generations--I who have sold my son to the Prussians--I who have masqueraded for years in the Prussian University of Strassburg, once the Queen of the Rhine Province--I who have discovered a secret which has lain buried since the days of the great Faraday--I who have discovered, or I should say re-discovered, after him the true theory, and, what is more, the actual working of the magnetic tides which flow north and south through the two hemispheres to the pole--I who can give you, Monsieur le Ministre, and through you France, the control of those tides, so that you may make them ebb and flow as the tides of the sea do--prosperity with the flow, adversity with the ebb, that is what it comes to--ah, it is incredible!

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From this reading I have given you every proof that I can--saving the impossible--the bringing of my apparatus from Strassburg to Paris, which, of course, you know is an impossibility, since it would have to cross the frontier, which was once a French high road.

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From this reading Can you not see that I am honest, that I love my country, from which I have been torn away--I who come from a family that has lived in Alsace since it was first French territory--I who am a Frenchman through five generations--I who have sold my son to the Prussians--I who have masqueraded for years in the Prussian University of Strassburg, once the Queen of the Rhine Province--I who have discovered a secret which has lain buried since the days of the great Faraday--I who have discovered, or I should say re-discovered, after him the true theory, and, what is more, the actual working of the magnetic tides which flow north and south through the two hemispheres to the pole--I who can give you, Monsieur le Ministre, and through you France, the control of those tides, so that you may make them ebb and flow as the tides of the sea do--prosperity with the flow, adversity with the ebb, that is what it comes to--ah, it is incredible!

showing where something starts, or who sent it

From this reading I have given you every proof that I can--saving the impossible--the bringing of my apparatus from Strassburg to Paris, which, of course, you know is an impossibility, since it would have to cross the frontier, which was once a French high road.

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From this reading I have given you every proof that I can--saving the impossible--the bringing of my apparatus from Strassburg to Paris, which, of course, you know is an impossibility, since it would have to cross the frontier, which was once a French high road.

Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.

From this reading Can you not see that I am honest, that I love my country, from which I have been torn away--I who come from a family that has lived in Alsace since it was first French territory--I who am a Frenchman through five generations--I who have sold my son to the Prussians--I who have masqueraded for years in the Prussian University of Strassburg, once the Queen of the Rhine Province--I who have discovered a secret which has lain buried since the days of the great Faraday--I who have discovered, or I should say re-discovered, after him the true theory, and, what is more, the actual working of the magnetic tides which flow north and south through the two hemispheres to the pole--I who can give you, Monsieur le Ministre, and through you France, the control of those tides, so that you may make them ebb and flow as the tides of the sea do--prosperity with the flow, adversity with the ebb, that is what it comes to--ah, it is incredible!

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From this reading Can you not see that I am honest, that I love my country, from which I have been torn away--I who come from a family that has lived in Alsace since it was first French territory--I who am a Frenchman through five generations--I who have sold my son to the Prussians--I who have masqueraded for years in the Prussian University of Strassburg, once the Queen of the Rhine Province--I who have discovered a secret which has lain buried since the days of the great Faraday--I who have discovered, or I should say re-discovered, after him the true theory, and, what is more, the actual working of the magnetic tides which flow north and south through the two hemispheres to the pole--I who can give you, Monsieur le Ministre, and through you France, the control of those tides, so that you may make them ebb and flow as the tides of the sea do--prosperity with the flow, adversity with the ebb, that is what it comes to--ah, it is incredible!

Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.

From this reading I have given you every proof that I can--saving the impossible--the bringing of my apparatus from Strassburg to Paris, which, of course, you know is an impossibility, since it would have to cross the frontier, which was once a French high road.

an important story-specific word used in this passage

From this reading Can you not see that I am honest, that I love my country, from which I have been torn away--I who come from a family that has lived in Alsace since it was first French territory--I who am a Frenchman through five generations--I who have sold my son to the Prussians--I who have masqueraded for years in the Prussian University of Strassburg, once the Queen of the Rhine Province--I who have discovered a secret which has lain buried since the days of the great Faraday--I who have discovered, or I should say re-discovered, after him the true theory, and, what is more, the actual working of the magnetic tides which flow north and south through the two hemispheres to the pole--I who can give you, Monsieur le Ministre, and through you France, the control of those tides, so that you may make them ebb and flow as the tides of the sea do--prosperity with the flow, adversity with the ebb, that is what it comes to--ah, it is incredible!

the form of “have” used with he, she, it, or a singular noun

From this reading Can you not see that I am honest, that I love my country, from which I have been torn away--I who come from a family that has lived in Alsace since it was first French territory--I who am a Frenchman through five generations--I who have sold my son to the Prussians--I who have masqueraded for years in the Prussian University of Strassburg, once the Queen of the Rhine Province--I who have discovered a secret which has lain buried since the days of the great Faraday--I who have discovered, or I should say re-discovered, after him the true theory, and, what is more, the actual working of the magnetic tides which flow north and south through the two hemispheres to the pole--I who can give you, Monsieur le Ministre, and through you France, the control of those tides, so that you may make them ebb and flow as the tides of the sea do--prosperity with the flow, adversity with the ebb, that is what it comes to--ah, it is incredible!

used with a past participle to form the perfect tenses

From this reading I have given you every proof that I can--saving the impossible--the bringing of my apparatus from Strassburg to Paris, which, of course, you know is an impossibility, since it would have to cross the frontier, which was once a French high road.

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From this reading Can you not see that I am honest, that I love my country, from which I have been torn away--I who come from a family that has lived in Alsace since it was first French territory--I who am a Frenchman through five generations--I who have sold my son to the Prussians--I who have masqueraded for years in the Prussian University of Strassburg, once the Queen of the Rhine Province--I who have discovered a secret which has lain buried since the days of the great Faraday--I who have discovered, or I should say re-discovered, after him the true theory, and, what is more, the actual working of the magnetic tides which flow north and south through the two hemispheres to the pole--I who can give you, Monsieur le Ministre, and through you France, the control of those tides, so that you may make them ebb and flow as the tides of the sea do--prosperity with the flow, adversity with the ebb, that is what it comes to--ah, it is incredible!

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From this reading I have given you every proof that I can--saving the impossible--the bringing of my apparatus from Strassburg to Paris, which, of course, you know is an impossibility, since it would have to cross the frontier, which was once a French high road.

the male already mentioned, as the object of a verb or preposition

From this reading Can you not see that I am honest, that I love my country, from which I have been torn away--I who come from a family that has lived in Alsace since it was first French territory--I who am a Frenchman through five generations--I who have sold my son to the Prussians--I who have masqueraded for years in the Prussian University of Strassburg, once the Queen of the Rhine Province--I who have discovered a secret which has lain buried since the days of the great Faraday--I who have discovered, or I should say re-discovered, after him the true theory, and, what is more, the actual working of the magnetic tides which flow north and south through the two hemispheres to the pole--I who can give you, Monsieur le Ministre, and through you France, the control of those tides, so that you may make them ebb and flow as the tides of the sea do--prosperity with the flow, adversity with the ebb, that is what it comes to--ah, it is incredible!

truthful and trustworthy

From this reading Can you not see that I am honest, that I love my country, from which I have been torn away--I who come from a family that has lived in Alsace since it was first French territory--I who am a Frenchman through five generations--I who have sold my son to the Prussians--I who have masqueraded for years in the Prussian University of Strassburg, once the Queen of the Rhine Province--I who have discovered a secret which has lain buried since the days of the great Faraday--I who have discovered, or I should say re-discovered, after him the true theory, and, what is more, the actual working of the magnetic tides which flow north and south through the two hemispheres to the pole--I who can give you, Monsieur le Ministre, and through you France, the control of those tides, so that you may make them ebb and flow as the tides of the sea do--prosperity with the flow, adversity with the ebb, that is what it comes to--ah, it is incredible!

the person speaking or writing, as the subject of the verb

From this reading "And so, Monsieur le Ministre, I am to take that as your final word?

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From this reading "Once more, not as a scientist, not as an inventor, but only as a loyal son of France, let me implore you, Monsieur le Ministre, not to regard what I have told you as the dream of an enthusiast who has only dreamt and not done."

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From this reading I have given you every proof that I can--saving the impossible--the bringing of my apparatus from Strassburg to Paris, which, of course, you know is an impossibility, since it would have to cross the frontier, which was once a French high road.

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From this reading I have given you every proof that I can--saving the impossible--the bringing of my apparatus from Strassburg to Paris, which, of course, you know is an impossibility, since it would have to cross the frontier, which was once a French high road.

inside something, or within a place, period, or state

From this reading Can you not see that I am honest, that I love my country, from which I have been torn away--I who come from a family that has lived in Alsace since it was first French territory--I who am a Frenchman through five generations--I who have sold my son to the Prussians--I who have masqueraded for years in the Prussian University of Strassburg, once the Queen of the Rhine Province--I who have discovered a secret which has lain buried since the days of the great Faraday--I who have discovered, or I should say re-discovered, after him the true theory, and, what is more, the actual working of the magnetic tides which flow north and south through the two hemispheres to the pole--I who can give you, Monsieur le Ministre, and through you France, the control of those tides, so that you may make them ebb and flow as the tides of the sea do--prosperity with the flow, adversity with the ebb, that is what it comes to--ah, it is incredible!

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From this reading Can you not see that I am honest, that I love my country, from which I have been torn away--I who come from a family that has lived in Alsace since it was first French territory--I who am a Frenchman through five generations--I who have sold my son to the Prussians--I who have masqueraded for years in the Prussian University of Strassburg, once the Queen of the Rhine Province--I who have discovered a secret which has lain buried since the days of the great Faraday--I who have discovered, or I should say re-discovered, after him the true theory, and, what is more, the actual working of the magnetic tides which flow north and south through the two hemispheres to the pole--I who can give you, Monsieur le Ministre, and through you France, the control of those tides, so that you may make them ebb and flow as the tides of the sea do--prosperity with the flow, adversity with the ebb, that is what it comes to--ah, it is incredible!

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From this reading "Once more, not as a scientist, not as an inventor, but only as a loyal son of France, let me implore you, Monsieur le Ministre, not to regard what I have told you as the dream of an enthusiast who has only dreamt and not done."

the form of “be” used with he, she, it, or a singular noun

From this reading I have given you every proof that I can--saving the impossible--the bringing of my apparatus from Strassburg to Paris, which, of course, you know is an impossibility, since it would have to cross the frontier, which was once a French high road.

a thing, animal, or idea already mentioned

From this reading I have given you every proof that I can--saving the impossible--the bringing of my apparatus from Strassburg to Paris, which, of course, you know is an impossibility, since it would have to cross the frontier, which was once a French high road.

an important story-specific word used in this passage

From this reading I have given you every proof that I can--saving the impossible--the bringing of my apparatus from Strassburg to Paris, which, of course, you know is an impossibility, since it would have to cross the frontier, which was once a French high road.

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From this reading Can you not see that I am honest, that I love my country, from which I have been torn away--I who come from a family that has lived in Alsace since it was first French territory--I who am a Frenchman through five generations--I who have sold my son to the Prussians--I who have masqueraded for years in the Prussian University of Strassburg, once the Queen of the Rhine Province--I who have discovered a secret which has lain buried since the days of the great Faraday--I who have discovered, or I should say re-discovered, after him the true theory, and, what is more, the actual working of the magnetic tides which flow north and south through the two hemispheres to the pole--I who can give you, Monsieur le Ministre, and through you France, the control of those tides, so that you may make them ebb and flow as the tides of the sea do--prosperity with the flow, adversity with the ebb, that is what it comes to--ah, it is incredible!

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From this reading "And so, Monsieur le Ministre, I am to take that as your final word?

used to make a suggestion or a command including the speaker

From this reading "Once more, not as a scientist, not as an inventor, but only as a loyal son of France, let me implore you, Monsieur le Ministre, not to regard what I have told you as the dream of an enthusiast who has only dreamt and not done."

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From this reading Can you not see that I am honest, that I love my country, from which I have been torn away--I who come from a family that has lived in Alsace since it was first French territory--I who am a Frenchman through five generations--I who have sold my son to the Prussians--I who have masqueraded for years in the Prussian University of Strassburg, once the Queen of the Rhine Province--I who have discovered a secret which has lain buried since the days of the great Faraday--I who have discovered, or I should say re-discovered, after him the true theory, and, what is more, the actual working of the magnetic tides which flow north and south through the two hemispheres to the pole--I who can give you, Monsieur le Ministre, and through you France, the control of those tides, so that you may make them ebb and flow as the tides of the sea do--prosperity with the flow, adversity with the ebb, that is what it comes to--ah, it is incredible!

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From this reading Can you not see that I am honest, that I love my country, from which I have been torn away--I who come from a family that has lived in Alsace since it was first French territory--I who am a Frenchman through five generations--I who have sold my son to the Prussians--I who have masqueraded for years in the Prussian University of Strassburg, once the Queen of the Rhine Province--I who have discovered a secret which has lain buried since the days of the great Faraday--I who have discovered, or I should say re-discovered, after him the true theory, and, what is more, the actual working of the magnetic tides which flow north and south through the two hemispheres to the pole--I who can give you, Monsieur le Ministre, and through you France, the control of those tides, so that you may make them ebb and flow as the tides of the sea do--prosperity with the flow, adversity with the ebb, that is what it comes to--ah, it is incredible!

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From this reading "Once more, not as a scientist, not as an inventor, but only as a loyal son of France, let me implore you, Monsieur le Ministre, not to regard what I have told you as the dream of an enthusiast who has only dreamt and not done."

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From this reading Can you not see that I am honest, that I love my country, from which I have been torn away--I who come from a family that has lived in Alsace since it was first French territory--I who am a Frenchman through five generations--I who have sold my son to the Prussians--I who have masqueraded for years in the Prussian University of Strassburg, once the Queen of the Rhine Province--I who have discovered a secret which has lain buried since the days of the great Faraday--I who have discovered, or I should say re-discovered, after him the true theory, and, what is more, the actual working of the magnetic tides which flow north and south through the two hemispheres to the pole--I who can give you, Monsieur le Ministre, and through you France, the control of those tides, so that you may make them ebb and flow as the tides of the sea do--prosperity with the flow, adversity with the ebb, that is what it comes to--ah, it is incredible!

an important story-specific word used in this passage

From this reading Can you not see that I am honest, that I love my country, from which I have been torn away--I who come from a family that has lived in Alsace since it was first French territory--I who am a Frenchman through five generations--I who have sold my son to the Prussians--I who have masqueraded for years in the Prussian University of Strassburg, once the Queen of the Rhine Province--I who have discovered a secret which has lain buried since the days of the great Faraday--I who have discovered, or I should say re-discovered, after him the true theory, and, what is more, the actual working of the magnetic tides which flow north and south through the two hemispheres to the pole--I who can give you, Monsieur le Ministre, and through you France, the control of those tides, so that you may make them ebb and flow as the tides of the sea do--prosperity with the flow, adversity with the ebb, that is what it comes to--ah, it is incredible!

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From this reading Can you not see that I am honest, that I love my country, from which I have been torn away--I who come from a family that has lived in Alsace since it was first French territory--I who am a Frenchman through five generations--I who have sold my son to the Prussians--I who have masqueraded for years in the Prussian University of Strassburg, once the Queen of the Rhine Province--I who have discovered a secret which has lain buried since the days of the great Faraday--I who have discovered, or I should say re-discovered, after him the true theory, and, what is more, the actual working of the magnetic tides which flow north and south through the two hemispheres to the pole--I who can give you, Monsieur le Ministre, and through you France, the control of those tides, so that you may make them ebb and flow as the tides of the sea do--prosperity with the flow, adversity with the ebb, that is what it comes to--ah, it is incredible!

used to say something is possible, or to give permission

From this reading Can you not see that I am honest, that I love my country, from which I have been torn away--I who come from a family that has lived in Alsace since it was first French territory--I who am a Frenchman through five generations--I who have sold my son to the Prussians--I who have masqueraded for years in the Prussian University of Strassburg, once the Queen of the Rhine Province--I who have discovered a secret which has lain buried since the days of the great Faraday--I who have discovered, or I should say re-discovered, after him the true theory, and, what is more, the actual working of the magnetic tides which flow north and south through the two hemispheres to the pole--I who can give you, Monsieur le Ministre, and through you France, the control of those tides, so that you may make them ebb and flow as the tides of the sea do--prosperity with the flow, adversity with the ebb, that is what it comes to--ah, it is incredible!

the person speaking, as the object of a verb or preposition

From this reading "Once more, not as a scientist, not as an inventor, but only as a loyal son of France, let me implore you, Monsieur le Ministre, not to regard what I have told you as the dream of an enthusiast who has only dreamt and not done."

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From this reading "And so, Monsieur le Ministre, I am to take that as your final word?

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From this reading "And so, Monsieur le Ministre, I am to take that as your final word?

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From this reading Can you not see that I am honest, that I love my country, from which I have been torn away--I who come from a family that has lived in Alsace since it was first French territory--I who am a Frenchman through five generations--I who have sold my son to the Prussians--I who have masqueraded for years in the Prussian University of Strassburg, once the Queen of the Rhine Province--I who have discovered a secret which has lain buried since the days of the great Faraday--I who have discovered, or I should say re-discovered, after him the true theory, and, what is more, the actual working of the magnetic tides which flow north and south through the two hemispheres to the pole--I who can give you, Monsieur le Ministre, and through you France, the control of those tides, so that you may make them ebb and flow as the tides of the sea do--prosperity with the flow, adversity with the ebb, that is what it comes to--ah, it is incredible!

belonging to the person speaking

From this reading I have given you every proof that I can--saving the impossible--the bringing of my apparatus from Strassburg to Paris, which, of course, you know is an impossibility, since it would have to cross the frontier, which was once a French high road.

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From this reading Can you not see that I am honest, that I love my country, from which I have been torn away--I who come from a family that has lived in Alsace since it was first French territory--I who am a Frenchman through five generations--I who have sold my son to the Prussians--I who have masqueraded for years in the Prussian University of Strassburg, once the Queen of the Rhine Province--I who have discovered a secret which has lain buried since the days of the great Faraday--I who have discovered, or I should say re-discovered, after him the true theory, and, what is more, the actual working of the magnetic tides which flow north and south through the two hemispheres to the pole--I who can give you, Monsieur le Ministre, and through you France, the control of those tides, so that you may make them ebb and flow as the tides of the sea do--prosperity with the flow, adversity with the ebb, that is what it comes to--ah, it is incredible!

used to make a word, phrase, or sentence negative

From this reading Can you not see that I am honest, that I love my country, from which I have been torn away--I who come from a family that has lived in Alsace since it was first French territory--I who am a Frenchman through five generations--I who have sold my son to the Prussians--I who have masqueraded for years in the Prussian University of Strassburg, once the Queen of the Rhine Province--I who have discovered a secret which has lain buried since the days of the great Faraday--I who have discovered, or I should say re-discovered, after him the true theory, and, what is more, the actual working of the magnetic tides which flow north and south through the two hemispheres to the pole--I who can give you, Monsieur le Ministre, and through you France, the control of those tides, so that you may make them ebb and flow as the tides of the sea do--prosperity with the flow, adversity with the ebb, that is what it comes to--ah, it is incredible!

belonging to, or connected with, somebody or something

From this reading I have given you every proof that I can--saving the impossible--the bringing of my apparatus from Strassburg to Paris, which, of course, you know is an impossibility, since it would have to cross the frontier, which was once a French high road.

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From this reading I have given you every proof that I can--saving the impossible--the bringing of my apparatus from Strassburg to Paris, which, of course, you know is an impossibility, since it would have to cross the frontier, which was once a French high road.

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From this reading "Once more, not as a scientist, not as an inventor, but only as a loyal son of France, let me implore you, Monsieur le Ministre, not to regard what I have told you as the dream of an enthusiast who has only dreamt and not done."

used to join alternatives or possibilities

From this reading Can you not see that I am honest, that I love my country, from which I have been torn away--I who come from a family that has lived in Alsace since it was first French territory--I who am a Frenchman through five generations--I who have sold my son to the Prussians--I who have masqueraded for years in the Prussian University of Strassburg, once the Queen of the Rhine Province--I who have discovered a secret which has lain buried since the days of the great Faraday--I who have discovered, or I should say re-discovered, after him the true theory, and, what is more, the actual working of the magnetic tides which flow north and south through the two hemispheres to the pole--I who can give you, Monsieur le Ministre, and through you France, the control of those tides, so that you may make them ebb and flow as the tides of the sea do--prosperity with the flow, adversity with the ebb, that is what it comes to--ah, it is incredible!

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From this reading I have given you every proof that I can--saving the impossible--the bringing of my apparatus from Strassburg to Paris, which, of course, you know is an impossibility, since it would have to cross the frontier, which was once a French high road.

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From this reading Can you not see that I am honest, that I love my country, from which I have been torn away--I who come from a family that has lived in Alsace since it was first French territory--I who am a Frenchman through five generations--I who have sold my son to the Prussians--I who have masqueraded for years in the Prussian University of Strassburg, once the Queen of the Rhine Province--I who have discovered a secret which has lain buried since the days of the great Faraday--I who have discovered, or I should say re-discovered, after him the true theory, and, what is more, the actual working of the magnetic tides which flow north and south through the two hemispheres to the pole--I who can give you, Monsieur le Ministre, and through you France, the control of those tides, so that you may make them ebb and flow as the tides of the sea do--prosperity with the flow, adversity with the ebb, that is what it comes to--ah, it is incredible!

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From this reading I have given you every proof that I can--saving the impossible--the bringing of my apparatus from Strassburg to Paris, which, of course, you know is an impossibility, since it would have to cross the frontier, which was once a French high road.

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From this reading Can you not see that I am honest, that I love my country, from which I have been torn away--I who come from a family that has lived in Alsace since it was first French territory--I who am a Frenchman through five generations--I who have sold my son to the Prussians--I who have masqueraded for years in the Prussian University of Strassburg, once the Queen of the Rhine Province--I who have discovered a secret which has lain buried since the days of the great Faraday--I who have discovered, or I should say re-discovered, after him the true theory, and, what is more, the actual working of the magnetic tides which flow north and south through the two hemispheres to the pole--I who can give you, Monsieur le Ministre, and through you France, the control of those tides, so that you may make them ebb and flow as the tides of the sea do--prosperity with the flow, adversity with the ebb, that is what it comes to--ah, it is incredible!

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From this reading Can you not see that I am honest, that I love my country, from which I have been torn away--I who come from a family that has lived in Alsace since it was first French territory--I who am a Frenchman through five generations--I who have sold my son to the Prussians--I who have masqueraded for years in the Prussian University of Strassburg, once the Queen of the Rhine Province--I who have discovered a secret which has lain buried since the days of the great Faraday--I who have discovered, or I should say re-discovered, after him the true theory, and, what is more, the actual working of the magnetic tides which flow north and south through the two hemispheres to the pole--I who can give you, Monsieur le Ministre, and through you France, the control of those tides, so that you may make them ebb and flow as the tides of the sea do--prosperity with the flow, adversity with the ebb, that is what it comes to--ah, it is incredible!

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From this reading Can you not see that I am honest, that I love my country, from which I have been torn away--I who come from a family that has lived in Alsace since it was first French territory--I who am a Frenchman through five generations--I who have sold my son to the Prussians--I who have masqueraded for years in the Prussian University of Strassburg, once the Queen of the Rhine Province--I who have discovered a secret which has lain buried since the days of the great Faraday--I who have discovered, or I should say re-discovered, after him the true theory, and, what is more, the actual working of the magnetic tides which flow north and south through the two hemispheres to the pole--I who can give you, Monsieur le Ministre, and through you France, the control of those tides, so that you may make them ebb and flow as the tides of the sea do--prosperity with the flow, adversity with the ebb, that is what it comes to--ah, it is incredible!

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From this reading Can you not see that I am honest, that I love my country, from which I have been torn away--I who come from a family that has lived in Alsace since it was first French territory--I who am a Frenchman through five generations--I who have sold my son to the Prussians--I who have masqueraded for years in the Prussian University of Strassburg, once the Queen of the Rhine Province--I who have discovered a secret which has lain buried since the days of the great Faraday--I who have discovered, or I should say re-discovered, after him the true theory, and, what is more, the actual working of the magnetic tides which flow north and south through the two hemispheres to the pole--I who can give you, Monsieur le Ministre, and through you France, the control of those tides, so that you may make them ebb and flow as the tides of the sea do--prosperity with the flow, adversity with the ebb, that is what it comes to--ah, it is incredible!

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From this reading Can you not see that I am honest, that I love my country, from which I have been torn away--I who come from a family that has lived in Alsace since it was first French territory--I who am a Frenchman through five generations--I who have sold my son to the Prussians--I who have masqueraded for years in the Prussian University of Strassburg, once the Queen of the Rhine Province--I who have discovered a secret which has lain buried since the days of the great Faraday--I who have discovered, or I should say re-discovered, after him the true theory, and, what is more, the actual working of the magnetic tides which flow north and south through the two hemispheres to the pole--I who can give you, Monsieur le Ministre, and through you France, the control of those tides, so that you may make them ebb and flow as the tides of the sea do--prosperity with the flow, adversity with the ebb, that is what it comes to--ah, it is incredible!

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From this reading Can you not see that I am honest, that I love my country, from which I have been torn away--I who come from a family that has lived in Alsace since it was first French territory--I who am a Frenchman through five generations--I who have sold my son to the Prussians--I who have masqueraded for years in the Prussian University of Strassburg, once the Queen of the Rhine Province--I who have discovered a secret which has lain buried since the days of the great Faraday--I who have discovered, or I should say re-discovered, after him the true theory, and, what is more, the actual working of the magnetic tides which flow north and south through the two hemispheres to the pole--I who can give you, Monsieur le Ministre, and through you France, the control of those tides, so that you may make them ebb and flow as the tides of the sea do--prosperity with the flow, adversity with the ebb, that is what it comes to--ah, it is incredible!

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From this reading "Once more, not as a scientist, not as an inventor, but only as a loyal son of France, let me implore you, Monsieur le Ministre, not to regard what I have told you as the dream of an enthusiast who has only dreamt and not done."

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From this reading Can you not see that I am honest, that I love my country, from which I have been torn away--I who come from a family that has lived in Alsace since it was first French territory--I who am a Frenchman through five generations--I who have sold my son to the Prussians--I who have masqueraded for years in the Prussian University of Strassburg, once the Queen of the Rhine Province--I who have discovered a secret which has lain buried since the days of the great Faraday--I who have discovered, or I should say re-discovered, after him the true theory, and, what is more, the actual working of the magnetic tides which flow north and south through the two hemispheres to the pole--I who can give you, Monsieur le Ministre, and through you France, the control of those tides, so that you may make them ebb and flow as the tides of the sea do--prosperity with the flow, adversity with the ebb, that is what it comes to--ah, it is incredible!

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From this reading I have given you every proof that I can--saving the impossible--the bringing of my apparatus from Strassburg to Paris, which, of course, you know is an impossibility, since it would have to cross the frontier, which was once a French high road.

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From this reading I have given you every proof that I can--saving the impossible--the bringing of my apparatus from Strassburg to Paris, which, of course, you know is an impossibility, since it would have to cross the frontier, which was once a French high road.

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From this reading Can you not see that I am honest, that I love my country, from which I have been torn away--I who come from a family that has lived in Alsace since it was first French territory--I who am a Frenchman through five generations--I who have sold my son to the Prussians--I who have masqueraded for years in the Prussian University of Strassburg, once the Queen of the Rhine Province--I who have discovered a secret which has lain buried since the days of the great Faraday--I who have discovered, or I should say re-discovered, after him the true theory, and, what is more, the actual working of the magnetic tides which flow north and south through the two hemispheres to the pole--I who can give you, Monsieur le Ministre, and through you France, the control of those tides, so that you may make them ebb and flow as the tides of the sea do--prosperity with the flow, adversity with the ebb, that is what it comes to--ah, it is incredible!

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From this reading "Once more, not as a scientist, not as an inventor, but only as a loyal son of France, let me implore you, Monsieur le Ministre, not to regard what I have told you as the dream of an enthusiast who has only dreamt and not done."

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From this reading Can you not see that I am honest, that I love my country, from which I have been torn away--I who come from a family that has lived in Alsace since it was first French territory--I who am a Frenchman through five generations--I who have sold my son to the Prussians--I who have masqueraded for years in the Prussian University of Strassburg, once the Queen of the Rhine Province--I who have discovered a secret which has lain buried since the days of the great Faraday--I who have discovered, or I should say re-discovered, after him the true theory, and, what is more, the actual working of the magnetic tides which flow north and south through the two hemispheres to the pole--I who can give you, Monsieur le Ministre, and through you France, the control of those tides, so that you may make them ebb and flow as the tides of the sea do--prosperity with the flow, adversity with the ebb, that is what it comes to--ah, it is incredible!

Something that is kept or meant to be kept unknown or unseen by others.

From this reading Can you not see that I am honest, that I love my country, from which I have been torn away--I who come from a family that has lived in Alsace since it was first French territory--I who am a Frenchman through five generations--I who have sold my son to the Prussians--I who have masqueraded for years in the Prussian University of Strassburg, once the Queen of the Rhine Province--I who have discovered a secret which has lain buried since the days of the great Faraday--I who have discovered, or I should say re-discovered, after him the true theory, and, what is more, the actual working of the magnetic tides which flow north and south through the two hemispheres to the pole--I who can give you, Monsieur le Ministre, and through you France, the control of those tides, so that you may make them ebb and flow as the tides of the sea do--prosperity with the flow, adversity with the ebb, that is what it comes to--ah, it is incredible!

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From this reading Can you not see that I am honest, that I love my country, from which I have been torn away--I who come from a family that has lived in Alsace since it was first French territory--I who am a Frenchman through five generations--I who have sold my son to the Prussians--I who have masqueraded for years in the Prussian University of Strassburg, once the Queen of the Rhine Province--I who have discovered a secret which has lain buried since the days of the great Faraday--I who have discovered, or I should say re-discovered, after him the true theory, and, what is more, the actual working of the magnetic tides which flow north and south through the two hemispheres to the pole--I who can give you, Monsieur le Ministre, and through you France, the control of those tides, so that you may make them ebb and flow as the tides of the sea do--prosperity with the flow, adversity with the ebb, that is what it comes to--ah, it is incredible!

used to say what is right, expected, or advisable

From this reading Can you not see that I am honest, that I love my country, from which I have been torn away--I who come from a family that has lived in Alsace since it was first French territory--I who am a Frenchman through five generations--I who have sold my son to the Prussians--I who have masqueraded for years in the Prussian University of Strassburg, once the Queen of the Rhine Province--I who have discovered a secret which has lain buried since the days of the great Faraday--I who have discovered, or I should say re-discovered, after him the true theory, and, what is more, the actual working of the magnetic tides which flow north and south through the two hemispheres to the pole--I who can give you, Monsieur le Ministre, and through you France, the control of those tides, so that you may make them ebb and flow as the tides of the sea do--prosperity with the flow, adversity with the ebb, that is what it comes to--ah, it is incredible!

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From this reading I have shown you the facts, the figures, the drawings--everything.

from a time in the past until now

From this reading I have given you every proof that I can--saving the impossible--the bringing of my apparatus from Strassburg to Paris, which, of course, you know is an impossibility, since it would have to cross the frontier, which was once a French high road.

for that reason; with the result that

From this reading "And so, Monsieur le Ministre, I am to take that as your final word?

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From this reading Can you not see that I am honest, that I love my country, from which I have been torn away--I who come from a family that has lived in Alsace since it was first French territory--I who am a Frenchman through five generations--I who have sold my son to the Prussians--I who have masqueraded for years in the Prussian University of Strassburg, once the Queen of the Rhine Province--I who have discovered a secret which has lain buried since the days of the great Faraday--I who have discovered, or I should say re-discovered, after him the true theory, and, what is more, the actual working of the magnetic tides which flow north and south through the two hemispheres to the pole--I who can give you, Monsieur le Ministre, and through you France, the control of those tides, so that you may make them ebb and flow as the tides of the sea do--prosperity with the flow, adversity with the ebb, that is what it comes to--ah, it is incredible!

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From this reading Can you not see that I am honest, that I love my country, from which I have been torn away--I who come from a family that has lived in Alsace since it was first French territory--I who am a Frenchman through five generations--I who have sold my son to the Prussians--I who have masqueraded for years in the Prussian University of Strassburg, once the Queen of the Rhine Province--I who have discovered a secret which has lain buried since the days of the great Faraday--I who have discovered, or I should say re-discovered, after him the true theory, and, what is more, the actual working of the magnetic tides which flow north and south through the two hemispheres to the pole--I who can give you, Monsieur le Ministre, and through you France, the control of those tides, so that you may make them ebb and flow as the tides of the sea do--prosperity with the flow, adversity with the ebb, that is what it comes to--ah, it is incredible!

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From this reading Can you not see that I am honest, that I love my country, from which I have been torn away--I who come from a family that has lived in Alsace since it was first French territory--I who am a Frenchman through five generations--I who have sold my son to the Prussians--I who have masqueraded for years in the Prussian University of Strassburg, once the Queen of the Rhine Province--I who have discovered a secret which has lain buried since the days of the great Faraday--I who have discovered, or I should say re-discovered, after him the true theory, and, what is more, the actual working of the magnetic tides which flow north and south through the two hemispheres to the pole--I who can give you, Monsieur le Ministre, and through you France, the control of those tides, so that you may make them ebb and flow as the tides of the sea do--prosperity with the flow, adversity with the ebb, that is what it comes to--ah, it is incredible!

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From this reading I have given you every proof that I can--saving the impossible--the bringing of my apparatus from Strassburg to Paris, which, of course, you know is an impossibility, since it would have to cross the frontier, which was once a French high road.

an important story-specific word used in this passage

From this reading "And so, Monsieur le Ministre, I am to take that as your final word?

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From this reading Can you not see that I am honest, that I love my country, from which I have been torn away--I who come from a family that has lived in Alsace since it was first French territory--I who am a Frenchman through five generations--I who have sold my son to the Prussians--I who have masqueraded for years in the Prussian University of Strassburg, once the Queen of the Rhine Province--I who have discovered a secret which has lain buried since the days of the great Faraday--I who have discovered, or I should say re-discovered, after him the true theory, and, what is more, the actual working of the magnetic tides which flow north and south through the two hemispheres to the pole--I who can give you, Monsieur le Ministre, and through you France, the control of those tides, so that you may make them ebb and flow as the tides of the sea do--prosperity with the flow, adversity with the ebb, that is what it comes to--ah, it is incredible!

used to introduce what somebody said, thought, or felt

From this reading "And so, Monsieur le Ministre, I am to take that as your final word?

used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind

From this reading I have given you every proof that I can--saving the impossible--the bringing of my apparatus from Strassburg to Paris, which, of course, you know is an impossibility, since it would have to cross the frontier, which was once a French high road.

the people or things already mentioned, as the object

From this reading Can you not see that I am honest, that I love my country, from which I have been torn away--I who come from a family that has lived in Alsace since it was first French territory--I who am a Frenchman through five generations--I who have sold my son to the Prussians--I who have masqueraded for years in the Prussian University of Strassburg, once the Queen of the Rhine Province--I who have discovered a secret which has lain buried since the days of the great Faraday--I who have discovered, or I should say re-discovered, after him the true theory, and, what is more, the actual working of the magnetic tides which flow north and south through the two hemispheres to the pole--I who can give you, Monsieur le Ministre, and through you France, the control of those tides, so that you may make them ebb and flow as the tides of the sea do--prosperity with the flow, adversity with the ebb, that is what it comes to--ah, it is incredible!

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From this reading Can you not see that I am honest, that I love my country, from which I have been torn away--I who come from a family that has lived in Alsace since it was first French territory--I who am a Frenchman through five generations--I who have sold my son to the Prussians--I who have masqueraded for years in the Prussian University of Strassburg, once the Queen of the Rhine Province--I who have discovered a secret which has lain buried since the days of the great Faraday--I who have discovered, or I should say re-discovered, after him the true theory, and, what is more, the actual working of the magnetic tides which flow north and south through the two hemispheres to the pole--I who can give you, Monsieur le Ministre, and through you France, the control of those tides, so that you may make them ebb and flow as the tides of the sea do--prosperity with the flow, adversity with the ebb, that is what it comes to--ah, it is incredible!

the plural of “that”: the people or things further away, or already known

From this reading Can you not see that I am honest, that I love my country, from which I have been torn away--I who come from a family that has lived in Alsace since it was first French territory--I who am a Frenchman through five generations--I who have sold my son to the Prussians--I who have masqueraded for years in the Prussian University of Strassburg, once the Queen of the Rhine Province--I who have discovered a secret which has lain buried since the days of the great Faraday--I who have discovered, or I should say re-discovered, after him the true theory, and, what is more, the actual working of the magnetic tides which flow north and south through the two hemispheres to the pole--I who can give you, Monsieur le Ministre, and through you France, the control of those tides, so that you may make them ebb and flow as the tides of the sea do--prosperity with the flow, adversity with the ebb, that is what it comes to--ah, it is incredible!

a story-specific word describing an important person, object, action, or idea in this passage

From this reading Can you not see that I am honest, that I love my country, from which I have been torn away--I who come from a family that has lived in Alsace since it was first French territory--I who am a Frenchman through five generations--I who have sold my son to the Prussians--I who have masqueraded for years in the Prussian University of Strassburg, once the Queen of the Rhine Province--I who have discovered a secret which has lain buried since the days of the great Faraday--I who have discovered, or I should say re-discovered, after him the true theory, and, what is more, the actual working of the magnetic tides which flow north and south through the two hemispheres to the pole--I who can give you, Monsieur le Ministre, and through you France, the control of those tides, so that you may make them ebb and flow as the tides of the sea do--prosperity with the flow, adversity with the ebb, that is what it comes to--ah, it is incredible!

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From this reading Can you not see that I am honest, that I love my country, from which I have been torn away--I who come from a family that has lived in Alsace since it was first French territory--I who am a Frenchman through five generations--I who have sold my son to the Prussians--I who have masqueraded for years in the Prussian University of Strassburg, once the Queen of the Rhine Province--I who have discovered a secret which has lain buried since the days of the great Faraday--I who have discovered, or I should say re-discovered, after him the true theory, and, what is more, the actual working of the magnetic tides which flow north and south through the two hemispheres to the pole--I who can give you, Monsieur le Ministre, and through you France, the control of those tides, so that you may make them ebb and flow as the tides of the sea do--prosperity with the flow, adversity with the ebb, that is what it comes to--ah, it is incredible!

used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive

From this reading "And so, Monsieur le Ministre, I am to take that as your final word?

an important story-specific word used in this passage

From this reading "Once more, not as a scientist, not as an inventor, but only as a loyal son of France, let me implore you, Monsieur le Ministre, not to regard what I have told you as the dream of an enthusiast who has only dreamt and not done."

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From this reading Can you not see that I am honest, that I love my country, from which I have been torn away--I who come from a family that has lived in Alsace since it was first French territory--I who am a Frenchman through five generations--I who have sold my son to the Prussians--I who have masqueraded for years in the Prussian University of Strassburg, once the Queen of the Rhine Province--I who have discovered a secret which has lain buried since the days of the great Faraday--I who have discovered, or I should say re-discovered, after him the true theory, and, what is more, the actual working of the magnetic tides which flow north and south through the two hemispheres to the pole--I who can give you, Monsieur le Ministre, and through you France, the control of those tides, so that you may make them ebb and flow as the tides of the sea do--prosperity with the flow, adversity with the ebb, that is what it comes to--ah, it is incredible!

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From this reading Can you not see that I am honest, that I love my country, from which I have been torn away--I who come from a family that has lived in Alsace since it was first French territory--I who am a Frenchman through five generations--I who have sold my son to the Prussians--I who have masqueraded for years in the Prussian University of Strassburg, once the Queen of the Rhine Province--I who have discovered a secret which has lain buried since the days of the great Faraday--I who have discovered, or I should say re-discovered, after him the true theory, and, what is more, the actual working of the magnetic tides which flow north and south through the two hemispheres to the pole--I who can give you, Monsieur le Ministre, and through you France, the control of those tides, so that you may make them ebb and flow as the tides of the sea do--prosperity with the flow, adversity with the ebb, that is what it comes to--ah, it is incredible!

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From this reading Can you not see that I am honest, that I love my country, from which I have been torn away--I who come from a family that has lived in Alsace since it was first French territory--I who am a Frenchman through five generations--I who have sold my son to the Prussians--I who have masqueraded for years in the Prussian University of Strassburg, once the Queen of the Rhine Province--I who have discovered a secret which has lain buried since the days of the great Faraday--I who have discovered, or I should say re-discovered, after him the true theory, and, what is more, the actual working of the magnetic tides which flow north and south through the two hemispheres to the pole--I who can give you, Monsieur le Ministre, and through you France, the control of those tides, so that you may make them ebb and flow as the tides of the sea do--prosperity with the flow, adversity with the ebb, that is what it comes to--ah, it is incredible!

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From this reading Can you not see that I am honest, that I love my country, from which I have been torn away--I who come from a family that has lived in Alsace since it was first French territory--I who am a Frenchman through five generations--I who have sold my son to the Prussians--I who have masqueraded for years in the Prussian University of Strassburg, once the Queen of the Rhine Province--I who have discovered a secret which has lain buried since the days of the great Faraday--I who have discovered, or I should say re-discovered, after him the true theory, and, what is more, the actual working of the magnetic tides which flow north and south through the two hemispheres to the pole--I who can give you, Monsieur le Ministre, and through you France, the control of those tides, so that you may make them ebb and flow as the tides of the sea do--prosperity with the flow, adversity with the ebb, that is what it comes to--ah, it is incredible!

the past form of “be” used with I, he, she, it, or a singular noun

From this reading I have given you every proof that I can--saving the impossible--the bringing of my apparatus from Strassburg to Paris, which, of course, you know is an impossibility, since it would have to cross the frontier, which was once a French high road.

used to ask for information about something

From this reading Can you not see that I am honest, that I love my country, from which I have been torn away--I who come from a family that has lived in Alsace since it was first French territory--I who am a Frenchman through five generations--I who have sold my son to the Prussians--I who have masqueraded for years in the Prussian University of Strassburg, once the Queen of the Rhine Province--I who have discovered a secret which has lain buried since the days of the great Faraday--I who have discovered, or I should say re-discovered, after him the true theory, and, what is more, the actual working of the magnetic tides which flow north and south through the two hemispheres to the pole--I who can give you, Monsieur le Ministre, and through you France, the control of those tides, so that you may make them ebb and flow as the tides of the sea do--prosperity with the flow, adversity with the ebb, that is what it comes to--ah, it is incredible!

used to introduce a clause giving more about a thing just mentioned

From this reading I have given you every proof that I can--saving the impossible--the bringing of my apparatus from Strassburg to Paris, which, of course, you know is an impossibility, since it would have to cross the frontier, which was once a French high road.

which person or people

From this reading Can you not see that I am honest, that I love my country, from which I have been torn away--I who come from a family that has lived in Alsace since it was first French territory--I who am a Frenchman through five generations--I who have sold my son to the Prussians--I who have masqueraded for years in the Prussian University of Strassburg, once the Queen of the Rhine Province--I who have discovered a secret which has lain buried since the days of the great Faraday--I who have discovered, or I should say re-discovered, after him the true theory, and, what is more, the actual working of the magnetic tides which flow north and south through the two hemispheres to the pole--I who can give you, Monsieur le Ministre, and through you France, the control of those tides, so that you may make them ebb and flow as the tides of the sea do--prosperity with the flow, adversity with the ebb, that is what it comes to--ah, it is incredible!

in the company of; together with

From this reading Can you not see that I am honest, that I love my country, from which I have been torn away--I who come from a family that has lived in Alsace since it was first French territory--I who am a Frenchman through five generations--I who have sold my son to the Prussians--I who have masqueraded for years in the Prussian University of Strassburg, once the Queen of the Rhine Province--I who have discovered a secret which has lain buried since the days of the great Faraday--I who have discovered, or I should say re-discovered, after him the true theory, and, what is more, the actual working of the magnetic tides which flow north and south through the two hemispheres to the pole--I who can give you, Monsieur le Ministre, and through you France, the control of those tides, so that you may make them ebb and flow as the tides of the sea do--prosperity with the flow, adversity with the ebb, that is what it comes to--ah, it is incredible!

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From this reading "And so, Monsieur le Ministre, I am to take that as your final word?

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From this reading Can you not see that I am honest, that I love my country, from which I have been torn away--I who come from a family that has lived in Alsace since it was first French territory--I who am a Frenchman through five generations--I who have sold my son to the Prussians--I who have masqueraded for years in the Prussian University of Strassburg, once the Queen of the Rhine Province--I who have discovered a secret which has lain buried since the days of the great Faraday--I who have discovered, or I should say re-discovered, after him the true theory, and, what is more, the actual working of the magnetic tides which flow north and south through the two hemispheres to the pole--I who can give you, Monsieur le Ministre, and through you France, the control of those tides, so that you may make them ebb and flow as the tides of the sea do--prosperity with the flow, adversity with the ebb, that is what it comes to--ah, it is incredible!

used for something imagined, polite, or habitual in the past

From this reading I have given you every proof that I can--saving the impossible--the bringing of my apparatus from Strassburg to Paris, which, of course, you know is an impossibility, since it would have to cross the frontier, which was once a French high road.

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From this reading Can you not see that I am honest, that I love my country, from which I have been torn away--I who come from a family that has lived in Alsace since it was first French territory--I who am a Frenchman through five generations--I who have sold my son to the Prussians--I who have masqueraded for years in the Prussian University of Strassburg, once the Queen of the Rhine Province--I who have discovered a secret which has lain buried since the days of the great Faraday--I who have discovered, or I should say re-discovered, after him the true theory, and, what is more, the actual working of the magnetic tides which flow north and south through the two hemispheres to the pole--I who can give you, Monsieur le Ministre, and through you France, the control of those tides, so that you may make them ebb and flow as the tides of the sea do--prosperity with the flow, adversity with the ebb, that is what it comes to--ah, it is incredible!

the person or people being spoken to

From this reading I have given you every proof that I can--saving the impossible--the bringing of my apparatus from Strassburg to Paris, which, of course, you know is an impossibility, since it would have to cross the frontier, which was once a French high road.

belonging to the person or people being spoken to

From this reading "And so, Monsieur le Ministre, I am to take that as your final word?